Ryan Phillippe
Ryan Phillippe has landed the leading role in CBS' untitled pilot from Greg Berlanti.
Formerly known as Golden Boy, the one-hour drama chronicles one cop's meteoric rise from officer to detective to Police Commissioner. The Crash and Cruel Intentions actor, who will next appear on Damages, will play...
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Roseanne Barr, John Goodman
Roseanne and Dan John Goodman are finally reuniting!
Goodman has joined the cast of Barr's new NBC pilot Downwardly Mobile, TVGuide.com has learned.
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Written and executive-produced by Barr, the pilot will...
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Janet McTeer and Rose Byrne
When Patty Hewes talks, people listen — and the same goes for Glenn Close. "Last year felt a little guy-heavy," says the star of Damages, which featured John Goodman, Dylan Baker and Chris Messina in Season 4. "So Rose Byrne and I asked the producers to bring in more strong females."
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Bill Hader and Seth Meyers
Cheers to Saturday Night Live for earning the most Cheers this year!
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The venerable NBC skitcom received nine Cheers in 2011, for breakouts ...
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Kevin Pollak
Kevin Pollak will guest-star on an upcoming episode of Law & Order: SVU.
TVGuide.com has learned that Pollak, 54, will play a judge who finds himself on the wrong side of the law. Lost and Damages alum Fisher Stevens and Murphy Brown's ...
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Jenna Elfman
Jenna Elfman will guest-star in the upcoming season of Shameless, AOL TV reports.
The Dharma & Greg star will appear in the second season finale as...
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John Hannah, Jenna Elfman
Ryan Phillippe isn't the only big name joining the final season of Damages.
John Hannah has signed on for a major recurring role opposite Phillippe, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Spartacus star will...
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Ryan Phillippe
Ryan Phillippe has signed on for the fifth and final season of Damages, TVLine.com reports.
Phillippe will play...
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Ted Danson, Marg Helgenberger
It's hard to imagine Sam Malone from Cheers needing a maggot wrangler. "I've never seen anything like it," Ted Danson says. Even with silver hair, the Emmy-winning actor looks like a kid who just pulled apart his first earthworm. "You can tell how long a human body has been decomposing by the size of the bugs crawling inside!" And the wrangler's got every variety. "It's incredible, until you think, 'Oh, God. We're talking about dead people.'"
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Marg Helgenberger, Ted Danson
Over the summer, veteran CBS procedural CSI had the unenviable task of replacing its series lead for the second time in three seasons. And while a number of stars' names were bandied about, executive producers Carol Mendelsohn and Don McGill could think of only one man to follow in the footsteps of Laurence Fishburne and William Petersen: Ted Danson.
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"He's able to do so many things. He's such a smart actor," McGill tells TVGuide.com. "We sort of had a rough idea of what this character of D.B. Russell was. Then, when we saw Ted's name and thought he might be available, I think we both just sparked. He was the guy that we were thinking about."
Still, many found Danson's casting a bit surprising....
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